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beholding the embryo estabhshment, with its mag- 

 azines, habitations, and picketed bulwarks, seated 

 on a high point of land, dominating a beautiful 

 little bay, in which was a trim-built shallop lying 

 quietly at anchor. A shout of joy burst from each 

 canoe at the long -wished -for sight. They urged 

 their canoes across the bay, and pulled with eager- 

 ness for shore, where all hands poured down from 

 the settlements to receive and Avelcome them. 

 Among the first to greet them on their landing 

 were some of their old comrades and fellow-suf- 

 ferers, who, under the conduct of Reed, McLellan, 

 and McKenzie, had parted with them at the 

 Caldron Linn. These had reached Astoria nearly 

 a month previously, and, judging from their own 

 narrow escape from starvation, had given up Mr. 

 Hunt and his followers as lost. Their greeting was 

 the more warm and cordial. As to the Canadian 

 voyageurs, their mutual felicitations, as usual, were 

 loud and vociferous, and it was almost ludicrous to 

 behold these ancient 'comrades' and 'confreres' 

 hugging and kissing each other on the river bank." 

 The different parties now exchanged an account 

 of their adventures, all of which were eventful 

 enough, but I must content myself by describing 

 the proceedings of one, which will give the reader 

 some idea of the rest. 



